J. Marvin Hunter. Pioneer History of Bandera County:
Seventy-five Years of Intrepid History. Bandera: Hunter's P...

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J. Marvin Hunter.Pioneer History of Bandera
County: Seventy-five Years of Intrepid History.
Bandera: Hunter's Printing House, [1922]. First edition. 8vo.
285pp. plus "index to contents." Photographs. Red cloth with black
stamping. Binding split and fraying along rear joint. Spine faded.
Hinges strengthened. A few pages with short tears; a couple of
leaves with some paper loss at the fore-edge, not affecting the
text. Slim rubberstamp to bottom edge reading "S. A. McKinney
Collection." In generally very good condition. Rare.

A collection of entertaining sketches of people and events that
shaped the history of Bandera County in the Texas Hill Country. In
a prickly review of this book that appeared in the Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, E. W. Winkler posits that Hunter's work
is not a true county history and that it "does not fulfill the
expectations raised by the title. It is not a history; it is a
collection of biographical sketches and other isolated incidents
pertaining to Bandera County during the years between 1852 and
1892. The biographical data and the other material have value for
local history, and the compiler's enthusiasm and industry in
collecting and publishing them merits the support of those for whom
in the first instance the book is intended. But the history of
Bandera County remains to be written." Hunter, a resident of
Bandera County and author of the acclaimed and important Trail
Drivers of Texas, wrote several subsequent histories of Bandera
County, this one unknown to Jenkins and not included in Cracker
Barrel Chronicles.

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